Dear Leo, (01)
this sound very interesting.
Have you developed an ontology based on these classifications systems?
Or some alingments of these? (Atfer all, the user wants to use *one*
ontology or classification system for classifying ontologies.) (02)
All the best,
Till (03)
Am 28.05.2013 20:41, schrieb Obrst, Leo J.:
> Till,
>
> About 4 years ago, we investigated a classification system that we called a
>"subject-area map", for categorizing both ontologies and vocabularies (since
>we needed both). We looked at the Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
>system and the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the Dewey Decimal
>Classification (DDC) system, the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)
>system, Chaim Zins' 10 Pillars of Knowledge classification system, and various
>narrower, more specialized classification systems. By categorizing ontologies
>and vocabularies, we hoped to pinpoint gaps, overlaps, etc., in the emerging
>set of ontologies and vocabularies we would be using or developing. Note that
>the LCC/LCSH, DDC, UDC are primarily lexical classificational systems, and so
>e.g., upper/foundational and mid-level ontologies are not necessarily covered.
>Because the LCC/LCSH, DDC, UDC, in particular are very large, one possibility
>is to use just the upper levels of, say, the LCC/LCSH.
>
> Basically, we didn't want to reinvent the wheel, and these classifications
>systems are very well-developed. Though primarily for
>subject/bibliographic/library purposes, by their nature these have to be
>exhaustive.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> BioPortal uses (potentially hierarchical) categories for classifying and
>> tagging ontologies:
>> http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/NCBO_REST_services#List_all_on
>> tology_categories
>>
>> For Ontohub, we want to do the same. Of course, it would be cool to
>> organise the categories into an ontology. Maybe such an ontology already
>> exists? Any ideas?
>>
>> Best, Till
>>
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